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Enjoy Richard Rohr’s homilies here or find his podcast on iTunes. Fr. Richard speaks occasionally at his local parish, Holy Family Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His short sermons are recorded and made available by the CAC.

Our bookstore now carries several titles from our core faculty members James Finley and Cynthia Bourgeault. Explore their insights on Thomas Merton, meditation, Centering Prayer, the Trinity, the Wisdom Jesus, and more.

Visio Divina facilitates a relationship with an image or subject, patiently being with it, receptive in mind and heart, perhaps even in dialogue with it.
— Gail Fitzpatrick-HoplerRead Art: Week 1 Summary

In expressing all the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the psalms act as good psychologists.
— Kathleen NorrisRead The Psalms

The core elements out of which the world came into being and through which it is sustained are breath, tone, intentionality, and community.
— Cynthia BourgeaultRead Chant: Discovering Your Voice

Poetry seduces and entices you into being a searcher for the Mystery. It creates the heart leap, the gasp of breath, inspiring you to go further and deeper.
— Richard RohrRead Poetry

Joy Unspeakable is not silent, it moans, hums, and bends to the rhythm of a dancing universe. It is a fractal of transcendent hope, a hologram of God’s heart.
— Barbara HolmesRead Joy Unspeakable

Like the familiar laments in Psalms, blues artists forthrightly engaged the issues in life that the church would not discuss—such as sexuality, theodicy, and despair.
— Barbara HolmesRead Blues and Jazz: Lament and Improvisation